The Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD) will soon be releasing a new system to replace the current monolithic and outdated mainframe Legacy ONGARD system. The project is named the Severance Tax Replacement Project. Depending on the readiness of the oil and gas industry and the ability to coordinate its release with the normal tax cycle for all other tax programs, it is expected to be implemented between January and May 2018. Current target date for implementation of Severance Tax is March 19, 2018. The Severance Tax Replacement Project​ is taking place concurrently and in conjunction with the State Land Office’s project named the Royalty Replacement Project (RAPS). More details about RAPS will be released by the Land Office as it progresses.

The Severance Tax Replacement Project entails transferring the processing of three tax programs (Oil and Gas Production, Ad Valorem Equipment, and Natural Gas Processors taxes) from the ONGARD system to TRD’s GenTax® system which already processes taxes for 28 other programs.

To the citizens of New Mexico, the Severance Tax Replacement Project means revenue distributions will be updated more frequently, and less revenue will be suspended for data correction and completion.